Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-22
Knox family Maine Horse-Brecders'
Monthly.
THE TROJANS S.

THE TROJANS.
Editor Dunton's Spirit Of the Tu,J:-ln
your paper of June 18th "a Reader "
asks some of your readers to tell what
they know of the Troians. | have eight
horses that are descendants of the Tro-
jan brought from Long Island to Saline
county. Mo-, but cannot give a descrp-
ton of the old HORSE as | never saw him.
II. c. Graves, Slater, Saline county, Mo-,
| can give any information desired about
Trojan, as he was, perhaps, one of the
owners of the old horse and handled
several of his colts after the war, among
others the chestnut mare Hattie, credited
to Trojan in your 2 80 list, and Ben
LomOnd Jr, in the same list. The Hon.
Mormon J. Coleman, Washington, ID. c.,
| is perhaps familiar with the history of
the Long Island Troion, generally called
now the lost Trojan. Long Island Tro-
jan impaired the trotting instincts to his
offspring more generally and more decid-
edly than any other sire that has ever
been in this part of Missouri 1t is said
that he never sired Il colt that was not IA
trotter and have only seen two colts in
this section that could give the dust to
the Troians and they were Alcyone and
Gypsy Girl. The Troians are high-met-
tied. but level-headed and kind. The
old horse was kind in harness but not
reliable when out of it. even in this coun-
try where the boys (whte and black
were in the habit of riding ''anything that
wore hair" 1t is said that it required Il
good man to let him to Il mare with moth
ing on him but the bride. But boy
could handle him if he would put the
harness on him. He was kept in the
stables of Mr.. Edward Garnet at his
farm in Saline county Mo-, during the war.
On one occasion toward the close of the
war detachment of federal troops,
mostly Germans, undertook to take him
from the stable and away with them, but
the old horse cleaned them out. using
some of them rather roughly. This en-
ragged the men and they swore they
would shoot the horse. The ladies of the
house begged for the life of the horse.
and prevailed ON the men not to kill him
Later on another band of warriors came
to the stable and wanted horse. They
were trough riders from the border
sometimes called guerillas, and every
man of them believed that he could ride
any horse that ever stood on the earth
They did not ride Trojan. however, but
led him away, one man on each side OF
him. each man holding the horse away
from the other with a lariat. The owner,
of the horse never saw or heard of hin
again. They advertised and offered re-
wards for information concerning him
\ fruit tree agent found him in Texas
but it was not Trojan. \. w. Harding o
Worthington i o., Jefferson county, Ky.
came into possession of "A horse that he
believed to be the long lost Trojan, ano
advertised to sell Il lot of his colts a
public auction. Oct. II, 1870. lie i'll
duced men who knew the old horse ii
Saline county to 90 to Ky. To identify
lllt ll'I>t. anu WITCH liicN saw Ait h'l -
they said he was not Trojan. For more
than twenty years the horsemen of cen
trail Missouri have asked the question
what became of old Trojan: No one
has answered the question yet. Dunton'
Turf Manual says he died near McGregor
Iowa. in 1875, but we think that a mis-
take. as the men who led Trojan away
had neither friends nor stopping plac,
became of Long Island Trojan we would
like to hear from him through Dunton''
Spirit of the Turf. II. c. TINDALL.
Fayette, Mo.